Tag: reducing shipping emissions

A small group of EMSA staff were recently invited by Royal Caribbean Cruises and Tui to view the new Hybrid Scrubber System that has been installed on Tui Cruises new ship, the Mein Schiff 3, which had called into Lisbon during its maiden cruise to Malta. During the visit the EMSA group was given a presentation on the exhaust gas cleaning system installed on board, which is currently under trial. They also visited the engine room to see the system in situ and were briefed on how the system removes sulphur oxides from the exhaust gases. The Hybrid Scrubber System enables the ship to meet the requirements of MARPOL Annex VI and the EC Sulphur Directive (2012/33/EU), without using low sulphur fuel. Source & Image Credit : EMSAIn the beginning, I was open with you propecia before and after has changed my essence. It has become much more fun, and now I have to run. Just as it is improbable to sit.

The Danish Shipowners' Association expects the new Italian presidency to take the lead in the implementation of the EU's MRV proposals, which will restrict CO2 emissions for shipping. Italy took over the EU presidency from Greece on 1 July, and the Danish shipping industry has great expectations of both the Italians and, naturally, the new parliament, which will get started in earnest after the summer holidays. Italy's tenure marks the beginning of a new presidency trio, consisting of Italy (1 July 2014), Latvia (1 January 2015) and Luxembourg (1 July 2015) respectively. This means that the Italian presidency will set the course for the Council's programme for the next 18 months. For many, the summer has been dominated by the football World Cup. But the Italians in particular must have had plenty of opportunity to prepare themselves for taking on their new EU responsibilities because, as you know, they checked out of the World Cup early in mid-June, following the first round of matches. But there are now also even stronger professional reasons for the Danish shipping industry's great expectations. Apart from putting innovation, competitiveness and employment on the agenda, the Italian presidency also wants to focus more closely on ...

The UK P&I Club issued a Knowledge bulletin regarding the stepped up enforcement in the North American ECA. In a new enforcement initiative, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in cooperation with the United States Coast Guard (USCG), has boarded vessels to collect bunker samples to determine whether the vessels’ fuel sources meet the 1.0% fuel oil sulphur limit applicable within the North American Emissions Control Area (ECA). The EPA also disclosed that it has been “experimenting” with vessel flyovers to assess vessel smokestack plumes for the same purpose. The EPA’s unprecedented action, coming on the heels of its issuance of administrative subpoenas to several large companies operating ships within the North American ECA, announced stepped up efforts to enforce low sulphur fuel requirements within the North American ECA. Until this recent initiative, EPA and USCG officials seemed content to simply monitor compliance efforts by reviewing ECA-related records and documents such as Bunker Delivery Receipts during Port State Control inspections. These joint EPA/USCG initiatives to enforce fuel standards should serve as a warning to Club’s Members operating within the North American ECA. The commercial and legal consequences of a failure to comply with the ECA’s fuel oil sulphur limits ...

A careful study by Clean Air Network (CAN) of the data collected from the Environmental Protection Department's (EPD) fifteen air quality monitoring stations from January to June 2014 has revealed that Hong Kong's air quality continues to be far from satisfactory. All monitored air pollutants (NO2, PM10, PM2.5, SO2, and O3) reached levels that exceeded the World Health Organization's (WHO) air quality guidelines at every single monitoring station in Hong Kong, with only two exceptions. The Hedley Environmental Index estimates that, from January to June 2014, air pollution led to 1,430 premature deaths, 17,892 million in dollars lost, 93,655 hospitalizations, and 2.37 million doctor visits. The death toll due to air pollution for the first six months in 2014 is four times higher than the total number of deaths caused by SARS in Hong Kong in 2003. (For comparison, from January to June 2013, air pollution led to 1,606 premature deaths, 18,683 million in dollars lost, 100,688 hospitalizations, and 3.61 million doctor visits.) CAN recommends a series of measures, including limiting the growth of cars; setting up pedestrian and low emission zones such as the Des Voeux Road Central Project; and increasing roadside remote sensing equipment to strengthen the control of emissions from petrol and ...

Ocean Yield ASA, the Oslo-based shipowner, has placed orders for three LEGCs (Liquefied Ethylene Gas Carriers) of 36,000 cbm capacity, to be built at Sinopacific Offshore & Engineering, China. Each will be powered by a single MAN B&W ME-GI low-speed, dual-fuel engine. The engines will run on ethane, which ethylene carriers are also equipped to transport, and represents the first time ethane has been used as fuel to propel an oceangoing vessel. Hartmann Schiffahrt, part of Hartmann AG, the German ship-owning and management group, has acted as technical leader on the LEGC project, while Gaschem Service, another Hartmann division, is commercially responsible for the employment of the vessel. The vessels are scheduled for delivery in August, October and December 2016 respectively. MAN Diesel & Turbo reports that ethane was chosen as fuel, in preference to HFO, due to its more competitive pricing as well as the significantly shorter bunkering time it entails. As a fuel, its emissions profile is also superior to HFO - in which respect it is similar to methane - and compared to HFO contains negligible sulphur, 15-20% lower CO2and emits significantly fewer particles under combustion. MAN Diesel & Turbo also states that the ME-GI engines will ...

According to China Daily, experts have suggested China to establish emissions inventories to details pollutants which account for as much as 20% of the cities airbone pollutants and they have also called for the diesel fuel standard for ships to be strengthened to reduce pollution. Pollutants generated by ships and the port in Hong Kong contributed to more than 50 percent of the region's airborne pollution, according to Ding Yan, deputy head of the Environmental Protection Ministry's vehicle emissions control center. "The proportion for some major port cities on the mainland, as some research has shown, can reach as high as 20 to 30 percent," Ding stated while speaking at a seminar last week held by the Natural Resources Defense Council, an international nonprofit environmental organization. A white paper from the National Resources Defence Council (NRDC) on the prevention and control of shipping and port air emissions said pollutants generated by ships and ports include PM2.5 - particles smaller than 2.5 microns in diameter that can enter the lungs - PM10, nitrogen oxide and volatile organic compounds. The white paper said the amount of PM2.5 emitted by a medium-sized container ship in one day is equivalent to that emitted by ...

Finding a place to berth in the port of Rotterdam, will be an easy task for inland shippers with the soon-to-be-launched ‘Berth Available' app. With this new app shippers will be able to see at a glance which berths are available and which ones are taken. Entrepreneur Léon Gommans came up with the application that combines real-live data on the location of ships from the Automatic Identification System (AIS) with the coordinates of berths in the port of Rotterdam. Gommans recently won the National App Prize with his idea. It is expected that the app will be available in the App Store by October. The app will be based on data from the project ‘Blauwe golf, Verbindend', an initiative of the provinces Noord-Holland and Zuid-Holland, Rijkswaterstaat (the Directorate-General for Public Works and Water Management), the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment and the Port of Rotterdam Authority, which facilitates information exchange between shippers and waterway managers. As of 1 December 2014 an AIS device is mandatory for all vessels on the Rhine. The data from AIS is available as long as shippers and vessels stay anonymous and can be used for maritime purposes only. Source: Port of Rotterdam  In the ...

MAN Diesel & Turbo has supplied a complete propulsion system comprising a 7L32/44CR engine, Renk gears and an Alpha adjustable CP propeller for a new chemicals tanker operated by GEFO Gesellschaft für Öltransporte mbH. The tanker, christened "Fidelio", has a DWT of 6366 and can transport 260 types of (petro-) chemical materials - from vegetable oil to sulfuric acid. The Fidelio's main routes will be in northern Europe, however the tanker is also equipped for worldwide operation and therefore complies with the strict emissions regulations enforced in US coastal waters. The chemicals tanker was built at the Tersan shipyard in Yalova (Turkey) and is currently on its maiden voyage from Israel via France to the Netherlands. The 7L32/44CR engine, built at MAN Diesel & Turbo's plant in Augsburg, has an output of 3,920 kW and drives a MAN Alpha Mark 5 adjustable propeller via a reduction gear unit from Renk. This combination boosts the drive system's efficiency by up to nine percent, helping to save both fuel and costs as well as reduce emissions. The gears also have a pinion shaft which operates a Cummins generator to supply the ship's power (PTO mode). The generator can also serve as an ...

According to a new report ‘High Seas: High Stakes' released by the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at The University of Manchester, avoiding dangerous levels of climate change requires a radical rethink of the shipping system. If global shipping is to make its fair contribution to avoiding the 2°C of warming associated with dangerous climate change, CO2 emissions need to be cut within the next decade and fall by at least 80% by 2050 compared to 1990 levels, say the authors. The report's findings highlight that much more needs to be done even to just curb the rate of growth in emissions, with slow-steaming - where ships run at lower speeds during their voyages in order to reduce fuel burn - an essential part of the push towards cutting CO2. It also highlights the importance of looking at the bigger picture: one high profile policy area currently in the minds of the shipping industry is how to cut the sulphur content of fuels. New regulations that encourage the uptake of fuels that are lower in sulphur, such as low sulphur diesel, may ultimately release higher levels of CO2. Wind-assisted propulsion, in conjunction with other technologies, is one option that ...

Today is the deadline by which EU Member States have to transpose the European Sulphur Directive into national legislation. With the entry into force of the new European sulphur rules for ships in less than six months, on 1st of January 2015, European shipowners issue an open letter calling for fair, realistic and harmonised implementation of the Directive. The new sulphur requirements impose that ships sailing in the SECAs (Sulphur Emission Control Areas-the Channel, the North Sea and the Baltic Sea) use bunker fuels with a sulphur content of maximum 0.1% or that the same level of emissions is reached by the use of alternative fuels or compliant abatement technologies. However, the shipping industry is faced with a number of legal and technical uncertainties, which the Commission and Member States urgently need to address if they hope to lend shipowners a helping hand in preparing for the 1st of January 2015 deadline. In general, shipowners that have made irrevocable investments in good faith to be compliant in time, but are facing some of the uncertainties and problems, should be able to rely on well-defined and strictly limited transitory exemptions, such as extended compliance paths. "Member States and the Commission need ...